Sunday, October 26, 2008

Getting Ready to Go

The long awaited time is nearly upon us.  After a devastating spring, and an unexpected summer we are officially moved onto our sailboat.  Everything we need is aboard (so we hope), our car is safely back in West Virginia, and in a few days we will be leaving port for points south.

So far nothing in the past year has gone as planned and currently our plans don't amount to much.  We will be heading south along the ICW (that is the Intercoastal Waterway for those of you who are non boat savy - luv you mom!)  We plan to head toward Florida, hopefully we will see some Bahamas, but our plan will have to unfold itself along the way.

I suppose a small introduction could be in order.  My name is Rebecca, my partner is IB, and our boat is Passport, a 42 foot Tayana.  Last year, after years of weekend sails in the Chesapeake Bay, life awakened itself to allow us the opportunity to live aboard our vessel and travel.  So now, only  about a half a year later than we planned, (life seems to have it's own plans we don't account for) we are nearly ready to set sail.